Researchers found nearly 300 similar suits between 1814 and 1860, and more than a third of these people achieved their ...

Democrats have long said President Donald Trump's picks for key Justice Department positions represent an effort to fill the ...

Several of President Donald Trump’s nominees to serve in senior Justice Department positions faced questions from Senate Democrats Wednesday about whether it would ever be lawful for a president to ...

ST. LOUIS – After two years of extensive renovations, the historic Old Courthouse in Downtown St. Louis is now set to reopen this spring. The Gateway Arch Park Foundation has announced the Old ...

Following the Civil War, Dred Scott v. Sandford was overturned by ... balance in slave and free states since 1820. This case was at the center of a political battle when Taney nullified the Missouri ...

On March 6, 1857, the U.S. Supreme Court, in the Dred Scott v. Sandford decision ... In 1820, President James Monroe signed the Missouri Compromise, which allowed Missouri to join the Union ...

ST. LOUIS – FOX 2 continues its honoring of the Black History Series, reflecting on the stories of those who shaped the nation’s history. Lynne Jackson, the great-great-granddaughter of Dred ...

It is known most notoriously as the site of the Dred Scott case. The case involved a slave, Scott, who was suing for his freedom; the U.S. Supreme Court eventually decided he had no right to sue ...